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[quote=Anonymous]You can attend college with three years of math or four years and not calculus. There are plenty of schools in the US that don’t require or want calculus. People on this board don’t like to discuss them or look down on those colleges because they prioritize programs like AAP, TJ, and top 20 schools. There are smart kids who struggle with math or on’t like math that finish without Calculus and get into top 50 programs. They have AP classes in the humanities and sciences and they do fine in college admissions.

Most kids are accepted to even the top 20 schools with Calculus AB as their highest level math. Most of the country doesn’t allow Algebra 1 until 8th grade so Calculus is the highest level math a kid can take. Do a quick Google search, 15% of Americans take Calculus in HS, link below. 15%

Many schools will not count the DE Linear Algebra and Multivariate Calculus classes as completed college courses. There are two kids on my street that had to retake it at different colleges. It wasn’t a big deal for them, the classes were easier because they had been exposed to the material but DE classes are not automatically accepted.

https://maa.org/math-values/the-decline-in-high-school-calculus/

I understand that there are kids ready for Algebra in 6th grade but that number is not in the thousands. There is no good reason to rush kids into A1H. The few kids that are ready should be able to take it at every school in FCPS, not just the 20 or so that were willing to work with parents so the kid could take it. We know from A1H in 7th grade that some of the kids, more then people think, that tested into the class struggled. Kids dropped to M7H, kids got C’s and retook the class. Opening A1H to every kid in Advanced Math or AAP who passes the SOL is stupid.[/quote]

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